Elkin
"The Best Little Town
in North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXIX. No. 26
LATE P L
NEWS i
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BRIEF f
NATIONAL
RICHMOND, Va. The
United States faces "a real
shortage" of cod liver oil this
fall as result of the war in
Norway, Robert W. Rodman,
New York pharmaceutical ed
itor, told a meeting of the
American Pharmaceutical As
sociation here today. "When
Germany invaded Norway, the
source of supply of 70 per cent,
of the cod Uver oil used in the
United States was immediate
ly cut off," he said. "The hos
tilities came at a bad time for
the cod liver oil industry as
spring is the big cod fishing
season and stocks of oil in this
country are at their low point
following heavy winter sales
when vitamin products are in
the greatest demand."
GRANGEVILL.E, Idaho
Clifford Albert Zipse, 16, de
scribed by his attorney as a
mentally subnormal farm boy
subject to terrible rages, was
condemned today to die on the
gallows for fatally shooting
Wesley Curtis, 15, his Rocky
Point schoolmate. Testimony
brought out that Zipse con
fessed he waited on a hillside
March 1 and shot Curtis sev
eral times "because he was
making trouble for me with
the teacher."
NEW YORK, May B—Rear
Admiral Clark H. Woodward,
commandant of the third nav
al district, declared flatly yes
terday that "no battleship has
yet been sunk by an airplane"
and cited U. S. Navy tests to
support his assertion. "In
1924," he said, "the battleship
Washington was taken off the
capes and bombs were rained
upon her. She had to be rank
by the guns of the T«xa«.
Then we took the old German
Ostfriesland, and dropped 69
bombs at her. Only 16 hits
were scored, and it took them
all to sink her."
INTERNATIONA?;
HONOLULU, T. H„ May 8—
The U. S. battlefleet will re
main in Hawaiian waters "in
definitely," it was announced
officially yesterday. Admiral
James O- Richardson, com
mander-in-chief of the fleet,
said the Navy Department ap
proved his request that the
fleet remain in the Hawaiian
area for further tactical exer
cises and training. The fleet
arrived here nearly two weeks
ago from extensive secret
maneuvers In Pacific waters
west of Hawaii. The navy's
major fighting units are not
nominally based in Hawaii.
RAKEK, Yugoslavia, May 8
—(At the Italian Border)
Yugoslavia tightened her anti
espionage control and placed
all railway stations under mil
itary command today follow
ing upon reports of the arrest
and expulsion of three Italian
army officers. Government of
ficials denied the report, but
informed circles said the au
thorities at the important Dal
mation railroad center of
Knir had seized three Italian
officers in possession of new
photographs of Yugoslav fort
ifications.
BERLIN, May 8 Germany
rejoiced last night over British
Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain's "laughable" defense
of his policies before Parlia
ment and warned that an "in
sufferable situation" may
spread the war to the Med
iterranean at any hour. Mean
time, a spokesman said, the
embattled Nazi garrison at
Narvik, in northern Norway,
has repulsed strong new Allied
attacks while German bomb
ing planes have devastated
British land and naval concen
trations in the Narvik area.
LONDON. May 8 Webb
Miller, the famous United
Press war correspondent, was
found dead today beside a
railroad track near Clapham
Junction in Southwest London.
It was believed that he had
fallen from a train sometime
during the night while en
route to the country after cov
i ering last night's debate mi
Norway in the House of Gam
mons. Miller was 48 yean
, .old.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE
SCHOOL FINALS
GET UNDER WAY
SUNDAY NIGHT
Plans for Commencement in
Readiness
HIATT IS TO PREACH
Senior Class Day Exercises
to Be Held Monday After
noon on Campus
GET DIPLOMAS TUESDAY
Plans are in readiness for the
commencement exercises of the
city schools which will begin with
the baccauaureate sermon Sun
day evening at 8 o'clock at the
Methodist church, to be preached
by Rev. J. S. Hiatt, superintendent
of the Elkin District of the Meth
odist church.
Senior Class Day exercises will
be held Monday afternoon at 5
o'clock on the campus at the high
school.
Tuesday morning at 10:30 the
seventh grade graduating exer
cises will be held in the First
Baptist church.
The final program will be on
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock with
the graduating exercise at the
First Baptist church. Dr. Clyde A.
Milner, president of Guilford
College, will deliver the literary
address.
Seniors who will receive diplo
mas are: Frances Alexander, Laura
Evelyn Boger, Margaret Boger,
Anna Carter, Beulah Couch, Mo
zelle Darnell, Betty Gambill, Ger
trude Guyer, Hilda Hanks, Faye
Hiatt, Dorothy Hutchins, Lillian
Johnson, Louise Laffoon, Lestine
Lawrenece, Amelia Luttrell, Ruth
Martin, Betsy Moseley, Nancy
Moseley, Elizabeth McNeill, Mag
dalene Price, Lena Sale, Margaret
Settle, Gladys Transou, Kay Lee
Walker, Herman Burcham, Bill
Graham, Jim Harrell, Jim James,
Russell Johnson and Joe Transou.
Marshals for the commence*,
ment will be: Hugh Holcomb, Jr. v
chief. Wade Greenwood, Peggy
Royall, Jo Barker and Emma
Charles Foster.
CYCLE MAN
KILLS HIMSELF
I Ralph E. Hayes Forms Noose
from Belt and Hangs
From Door
RITES HELD TUESDAY
Ralph Eugene Hayes, 23, a na
tive of the Cycle community, and
son of John and Sallie Cooper
Hayes, committed suicide late
Sunday afternoon by hanging
himself with his belt at his room
ing house in Mount Airy. Young
Hayes had been in Elkin and
Jonesville for the week-end and
returned to Mount Airy where he
was employed in a furniture fac
tory, only a few hours before tak
ing his life. No cause is known
for the act.
His lifeless body was discovered
when members of the family with
whom he resided opened the door,
over which he had placed the belt
after making a noose and placing
it around his neck, closing the
door to make a gallows. The af
fair was investigated by Dr. R. E.
Smith, Surry county coroner, and
other Mount Airy officers, who
pronounced the death suicide.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes, five
brothers, Hugh, Thomas, Ray,
Homer and Leo Hayes, and six
sisters, Misses Eva and Norma
Hayes, Mrs. Glenn Hemnc, Mrs.
Alfonso Seagraves, Mrs. Roy Sea
graves and Mrs. Maude Sea
graves.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock from
Elkin Valley' Baptist church. In
terment was in the Elkin Valley
cemetery. The rites were in
charge of Rev. J. L. Powers.
SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET
TO BE HELD SUNDAY
The monthly Surry Baptist,
Sunday school associational meet
ing will be held Sunday afternoon,,
May 12, at 2:15 at the First Bai
tist church in Mount Airy,
special musical program will 1
rendered during the service t
various choirs in the assoclatioi
E. C. James of this city, prom
nent attorney and lay leader, wi
deliver an address during ttfs
afternoon in keeping wifi
Mother's D&y.
A cordial invitation Is extendfll
the public to attend. »
CD Ami ATFQ nr J7TVIAI llim Qf*linf\T Below are pictured members of the Class of
uKAUUAI LjO \Jr, LLIXIIV /liU/l OLnUUL 1940, Elkin High School, who will receive their
diplomas Tuesday evening. They are, front row, left to right: Anna Carter, Lillian Johnson, Hilda Hanks, Gladys
Transou, Frances Alexander, Kay Lee Walker, Mozelle Darnell and Faye Hiatt. Second row, left to right: Ruth Martin,
Betty Gambill, Margaret Settle, Amelia Luttrell, Lena Sale, Louise Laffoon, Lestine Lawrence, Russell Johnson, Mar
garet Boger. Third row, left to right: Gertrude Guyer, Magdalene Price, Laura E. Boger, Betsy Moseley, Elizabeth
McNeill, and Dorothy Hutchins. Back row, left to right: Beulah Couch, Nancy Moseley, Herman Burcham, E. C.
James, Jr., Jim Harrell, Bill Graham, and Joe Transou. Class mascots, front, are Larry James, left, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. James, and Nancy York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl York.—(Tribune Photo.)
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Elkin Fair Is
To Be Staged
Sept. 10-14
At a meeting of the directors
of the Elkin Fair, held recent
ly, the dates for the 1940 ex
hibition were announced aa
September 10, 11, 12, 13 and
14.
The fair this year will be
held at the Elkin school gym
nasium, scene of the last two
fairs, and Bullock's Amusement
Company will again be on the
midway.
BALL SEASON
OPENSFRIDAY
Blanketeers to Face Guilford
College Here in New Base
ball Park
SILER CITY SATURDAY
The Chatham Blanketeer base
ball team, edition of 1940, will
open the season here Friday after
noon, May 10, at 4:30 o'clock in
a game with Guilford College.
The game will played in the new
Chatham baseball park, which has
been completely rebuilt.
Saturday, May 11, the Blank
eteers will meet a team from Siler
City Hosiery Mill in a game sche
duled to begin at 3:30 p. m. Both
games are expected to provide
plenty of action and excitement.
Chatham Park has been rebuilt
from the ground up. The field
has been leveled and a new fence
and ■'grandstand constructed to
give the Blanketeers an excellent
field.
The probable lineup for the
Blanketeers for both games has
been announced as follows: Mc-
Coin 3S, Mann 18, Mackie 38,
Badgett LF, Johnson RF, Lane
28, Davis CF, Brown or Stockton,
C; Boles or Fletcher, P.
RED CROSS WOOL
IS RECEIVED HERE
The first shipment of wool
from the American Red Cross to
knit urgently needed garments
for refugees has been received
here and may be obtained from
Mrs. P. M. Greene at Hotel Elkin
by those desiring to offer their
services. Many knitters are al
ready engaged in making the gar
ments and others are needed to
aid in this work.
BANK OF ELKIN TO
OBSERVE HOLIDAY
The Bank of Elkin will be closed
Friday, May 10, in observance of
Southern Memorial Day, com
memorating the memory of those
who died for the Confederacy in
the War Between the States.
ELKIN, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1940
TO OPEN ROLL
CALLSUNDAY
Annual Golden Cross Mem
bership Drive Is to Get
Under Way Locally
PRAYER SERVICE
Sunday at the morning hour of
worship at the Methodist church
the annual Golden Cross roll call
will be opened. Membership for
adults in the Golden Cross is one
dollar per person and junior
membership is twenty-five cents.
Money received in the roll call is
used for care of persons at the
local hospital who are unable to
pay for hospital service. All who
attend the service Sunday morn
ing are asked to bring a member
ship fee if possible. A sermon in
observation of Mother's Day will
be preached by the pastor, Rev.
Herman F. Duncan.
Rev. Duncan also announces
that beginning with the mid
week prayer service on Wednes
day, May 15, and continuing for
five weeks, laymen will speak at
the meetings, each speaker and
his subject being announced as
follows: May 15, Prof. Z. H. Dix
on, "Christ in the Schoolroom";
May 22, Marion Allen, "Christ in
the Courtroom"; May 29, Eddie
Mooney, secretary of the Draper
Y. M. C. A., "Christ in the Y
Room"; June 5, Dr. Charles L.
Haywood, Jr., "Christ in the Op
erating Room", and the final ser
vice on June 12, with Rev. Her
man F. Duncan talking on
"Christ in the Upper Room."
The church extends a cordial
invitation to the public to attend
all of the services.
FIND BODY OF
N. ELKIN MAN
James Arthur Sprinkle, 59,
Found Dead in Ditch Late
Wednesday
ARE TO HOLD INQUEST
The badly decomposed body of
James Arthur Sprinkle, 59, miss
ing from his North Elkin home
since last Sunday, was found in
a ditch late Wednesday after
noon by DeWitt Hudson, of North
Elkin, and F. W- West, a son-in
law, who had been searching for
him.
The ditch in which the body
was found was about 100 yards
from the road leading to Big
Springs Dairy. .
Deputy Sheriff W. J. Snow, of
Elkin, was summoned to the
scene at once. Mr. snow stated
that insofar as he was - able to
tell there was no sign of foul
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Passes Away
lllPllllrlk. - jfl
W. L. Reeee, 77, above, prom
inent Surry county attorney of
Dobson, died at a Mount Airy
hospital Sunday. Funeral ser
vices were held Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock from Dobson
Baptist church.
W. L. REECE
PASSES AWAY
Prominent Surry County At
torney Dies in Mount
Airy Hospital
FUNERAL WAS TUESDAY
Winston Lewellyn Reece, 77, of
Dobson, an outstanding attorney
of Northwest North Carolina for
more than half a century, died
Sunday afternoon at a Mt. Airy
hospital where he was taken for
treatment Saturday. He had
been in declining health for a
number of years but he had been
seriously ill only a short time
prior to his death.
Mr. Reece was a native of Yad
kin county and a son of the late
Winston and Ma r y Dobbins
Reece. He. was educated at Wake
Forest College and the University
of North Carolina and received
his law license in 1886. He moved
to Dobson to make his home in
1887 and had resided there since
that time.
During his residence in this
county he was one of the most
influential citizens of the county,
although he never sought or held
any public office higher than
that of the mayor of his town.
He was active in the work of the
Baptist church, not only in Ms
town, where he served as super
intendent of the Sunday school
for 43 successive years, but also
throughout .the county, and for
22 years was moderator of the
Surry Baptist Association.
He was married in 1895 to Miss
Dora Shore, of Yadkin county,
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DEMOCRATS T 0
MEET SATURDAY
Will Hold Convention at Dob
son to Select Delegates
for Raleigh Meet
DOBSON BACKS F. D. R.
Democrats of Surry county will
meet in a county convention at
Dobson Saturday at 1:00 p.m., to
select delegates to the state con
vention which will be held the
following Friday and Saturday at
Raleigh.
The county convention, usually
a formal affair, is expected to
run true to form this year.
With Senator J. H. Folger
heading the Roosevelt movement
in the state, it is probable that
an effort will be made to instruct
the entire Surry delegation to
vote for Roosevelt at the state
convention.
Henry Dobson, of Elkin, who is
seeking the Democratic nomina
tion to the state legislature as
representative from Surry, has
announced his support of the
President for a third term, and
will support a resolution to that
effect in the county convention,
he said Wednesday.
Mr. Dobson also stated that he
favors the Retirement Fund for
the teachers of North Carolina
and adequate school facilities in
Surry county.
Congressman A. D. Folger,
Democratic county chairman, is
in Washington and it is hpt
known whether he will be present
to preside over the convention, i
Local Hospital
Is To Hold Open
House Sunday
On National Hospital Day, Sun
day, May 12, the staff and board
of directors of Hugh Chatham
Memorial hospital here extend a
cordial welcome to the public to
visit the hospital in order to see
what is being accomplished In be
half of the patients at the hos
pital and in the community at
large.
Mostly visits to the hospital are
of a personal nature, to visit a
patient who is either a friend or
a relative, hut the hospital invites
people to come Sunday as their
welcome guest, to see how the
hospital functions with its staff
of well-trained physicians, nurses
and other health workers. The
numerous services which the hos
pital offers will be open for in
spection'.
Rev. Herman P. Duncan, pas
tor of the El kin Methodist
church, will speak briefly at 3:00
o'clock at the hospital.
A most cordial Invitation is ex -
tended the public to attend the
annual "open house" of the hos
pital.
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TWO SECTIONS
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
CHAMBERLAIN IS
FACING CRISIS;
DUTCHJEARFUL
Labor Party Is to Force Vote
in Commons
SEEKING RECOGNITION
Dutch Government Maintain
ing Precautions Against
German Invasion
ALL LEAVES CANCELLED
. London, May B:—The leadership
of the labor party decided today to
force a vote in the House of Com
mons tonight testing the confi
denece of Parliament in the cab
inet of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain.
The action of the laborites was
equivalent to demanding that
Commons vote "no confidence" in
the cabinet after a two day debate
on the unsuccessful allied expedi
ionary campaign in Norway.
Laborites reversed their previous
position in deciding to force a
vote at the end of debate tonight.
They had taken a tentative deci
sion yesterday not to seek a vote.
The new decision sent the con
servative party whips into action
to rally government supporters.
It was generally believed that
the Chambelain government, de
spite bitter attacks on its conduct
of the war, would be able to se
cure a majority, but some of the
Laborites were hopeful of an up
set. A vote of non-confidence
would almost certainly force
Chamberlain's resignation.
(The Conservative party has
374 out of a total 615 members in
the House of Commons, but the
cabinet also has Liheral National,
National Labor and: National sup
porters to make a total of 418
supporters.)
There was a growing belief
that a number of government
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EHSIACULTY
IS ANNOUNCED
Will Teach in Elkin Schools
During 1940-41 Term,
McAdams States
3 CHANGES IN FACULTY
J. Mark McAdams, superin
tendent of the city schools, an
nounces the following faculty
members for the 1940-41 session:
High school: J. Mark McAdams,
Miss Alice Dixon, Miss Faye
Overcash, Miss Mary E. Holland,
Miss Virginia Barker, J. S. Bum
garner and Thomas Graybeal.
Elementary school: Miss Jose
phine Paul, Miss Emma Cooke,
Mrs. Fletcher Harris, Mrs. Lee
Neaves, Miss Elizabeth Harris,
Miss Betty Allen, Miss Minnie
Ruth McNeill, Mrs. Fred Harris,
Mrs. D. C. Martin, Miss Ola An
gell, Miss Mary Hendren, Miss
Norma Cawthoi, Miss Blanche
Dixon.
Mr. Graybeal succeeds Miss
Elizabeth Anderson, who resign
ed as science and math teacher
in the high school. Miss Lena
Lewis, coach of girls' athletics
and teacher of history and Eng
lish, also has resigned from the
\high school faculty, and her suc
cessor has not been named. Onli
one of the teachers from the ele
mentary school, Miss Ruth At
kinson, declined to accept reelec
tion, and Mrs. Lee Neaves, who
has this year been a member of
the Jonesville faculty, has been
elected to teach Miss Atkinson's
section of the sixth grade.
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